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Old towns & squares
Wrocław
Laid out in the 13th century on a flat rise above the Oder, beside a trade route running across Europe from east to west, this square measures roughly 204 by 170 metres. Wrocław's Market Square covers 3.64 hectares, making it one of the la…
Viewpoints
Wrocław
Bastion Sakwowy in Wrocław (roughly "SAHK-vo-vy"; long known locally as Partisans' Hill) is a 16th-century bastion of the old city walls that was turned into a romantic hilltop promenade in the 19th century. Following a major restoration c…
Landmarks
Wrocław
The District of Four Denominations in Wrocław (also called the District of Mutual Respect) is a small corner of the Old Town where a synagogue, an Orthodox cathedral, a Roman Catholic church and a Lutheran church all stand within about 300…
Technical monuments
Wrocław
Wrocław Market Hall (Hala Targowa, say "HAH-lah tar-GOH-vah") is a working food market that has been trading since 1908 – and a landmark of early concrete engineering. Behind its red-brick facade, giant reinforced-concrete arches soar over…
Lakes
Wrocław
Grunwald Bridge in Wrocław (Most Grunwaldzki, roughly grun-VAHLD-skee; the city is VROTS-wahf) is a 1910 steel suspension bridge over the Oder River and one of the most photographed landmarks in this western Polish city. Its chunky granite…
Other
Wrocław
On the north-western edge of Wrocław a white pylon 122 metres high, the tallest in Poland, rises above the Oder. Hanging from it, the Rędziński Bridge carries the A8 motorway over the river and over Rędzin Island with its historic locks. I…
Landmarks
Wrocław
Tumski Bridge in Wrocław (say "TOOM-skee") is the green steel bridge that carries you across the Oder River onto Ostrów Tumski (Cathedral Island), the oldest part of the city. Known locally as the Lovers' Bridge, it frames the twin spires…
Other
Wrocław
Nadodrze is a district of tenement houses, workshops and painted courtyards just across the Oder, about 10 minutes' walk from the Market Square. In 1945 it suffered far less damage than the centre, so today it shows pre-war Wrocław in its…
Old towns & squares
Wrocław
Ostrów Tumski in Wrocław (Cathedral Island, pronounced roughly OS-troof TOOM-skee, VROTS-wahv) is the oldest part of the city: a former island in the Oder River where the Piast dynasty built a stronghold in the 10th century and where a bis…
Gardens
Wrocław
Szczytnicki Park (roughly "shchit-NEE-tskee") is Wrocław's grand green lung: about 250 acres (100 ha) of old trees, ponds and lawns right next to the UNESCO-listed Centennial Hall. Laid out in 1783, it was one of the first English-style la…
Gardens
Wrocław
The Pergola and Multimedia Fountain in Wrocław (say "VROTS-wahf") is one of the city's favorite free things to do: a vine-covered, half-oval colonnade from 1913 wraps around a pond where Poland's largest multimedia fountain has danced to m…
Landmarks
Wrocław
At the entrance to Stare Jatki from Odrzańska Street stands a group of bronze animals – a goose with an egg, a goat, a pig, a piglet, a duck, a rabbit and a giant rooster – and a plaque in the cobbles reads: "In honour of slaughtered anima…
Monuments & mounds
Wrocław
Wrocław is home to about 1,040 bronze dwarfs: by cash machines, on window sills, under street lamps and at office doors. The thousandth figure was unveiled in September 2025 – and this whole little population has a surprisingly serious ori…
Landmarks
Wrocław
Piasek Island in Wrocław (say "PYAH-sek," meaning "sand") is a small island in the Oder River between the Old Town and Cathedral Island, and it lies on the city's most scenic walking route. It's dominated by the Gothic Church of the Virgin…
Other
Wrocław
Słodowa Island is a small, green island in the Oder right next to the Old Town, where students sit on the grass on warm evenings and the riverside offers a view of the Baroque main building of the University of Wrocław. It looks like a pla…